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New Westminster

New Westminster is a city of 79,000 people in that is part of . Its many Victorian-era houses and buildings remain giving the city a different feel than the rest of suburban Vancouver.
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  • Type: City with 58,000 residents
  • Description: city in British Columbia, Canada
  • Also known as: “New Westminster, BC” and “New Westminster, British Columbia”
  • Neighbors: , , , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include SkyBridge and T. Eaton and Company Store.

Bridge
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The is a cable-stayed railway bridge in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Built between 1987 and 1989, it carries trains of the Expo Line of TransLink's SkyTrain across the between New Westminster and .

Historic building
Photo: Sageb1, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a historic building.

Historic building
Photo: Mhamilton1927, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a historic building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Whalley and Edmonds.

Suburb
is the most densely populated and urban of the six town centres in , Canada. It encompasses City Centre, the city's central business district, and is home to the Surrey City Hall, the main branch of Surrey Libraries, Central City, SFU Surrey and the site of Kwantlen Polytechnic University's Civic Plaza campus.

Neighborhood
is a neighbourhood in the southeast of , British Columbia, Canada. It is one of the city's four officially designated town centres. The area is served by the Expo Line of the SkyTrain via station.

Suburb
is a neighbourhood in the Whalley town centre of , British Columbia, Canada, that stretches south from the to King George Boulevard.

New Westminster

Latitude
49.2068° or 49° 12′ 24″ north
Longitude
-122.9109° or 122° 54′ 39″ west
Population
58,000
Elevation
60 metres (197 feet)
IATA airport code
YBD
United Nations Location Code
CA NWE
Open location code
84XV634Q+PJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5319478193
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
6087844
Wiki­data ID
Q876122
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“New Westminster” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “نيو ويستمينيستر، كولومبيا البريطانية”
  • Arabic: “نيو ويستمينيستر”
  • Armenian: “Նյու Վեսթմինստթեր”
  • Asturian: “New Westminster”
  • Azerbaijani: “Nyu-Uestminster”
  • Azerbaijani: “Nyu-Vestminster”
  • Bengali: “নিউ ওয়েস্ট মিনিস্টার”
  • Catalan: “New Westminster”
  • Cebuano: “New Westminster”
  • Chinese: “新威斯敏斯特”
  • Chinese: “新西敏”
  • Chinese: “新西敏市”
  • Czech: “New Westminster”
  • Danish: “New Westminster”
  • Dimli (individual language): “New Westminster, Kolombiyay Britanya”
  • Dutch: “New Westminster”
  • Esperanto: “New Westminster, Brita Kolumbio”
  • Esperanto: “New Westminster”
  • Esperanto: “Nov-Vestminstro”
  • Faroese: “New Westminster”
  • Finnish: “New Westminster”
  • French: “New Westminster”
  • Galician: “New Westminster”
  • German: “New Westminster”
  • Greek: “Νιου Γουέστ”
  • Greek: “Νιου Γουέστμινστερ”
  • Gujarati: “ન્યૂ વેસ્ટમિન્સ્ટર”
  • Hebrew: “ניו וסטמינסטר”
  • Hindi: “न्यू वेस्टमिंस्टर”
  • Indonesian: “New Westminster”
  • Irish: “New Westminster”
  • Italian: “New Westminster”
  • Japanese: “ニューウェストミンスター”
  • Japanese: “ニューウエストミンスター”
  • Kalaallisut: “New Westminster”
  • Kannada: “ನ್ಯು ವೆಸ್ಟ್ಮಿನಿಸ್ಟರ್”
  • Korean: “뉴 웨스트민스터”
  • Korean: “뉴웨스트민스터”
  • Kurdish: “New Westminster”
  • Latvian: “Ņūvestminstera”
  • Lithuanian: “Naujasis Vestminsteris”
  • Malagasy: “New Westminster”
  • Malay: “New Westminster”
  • Malayalam: “ന്യൂ വെസ്റ്റ്മിൻസ്റ്റർ”
  • Marathi: “न्यू वेस्टमिन्स्टर”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “New Westminster”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “New Westminster”
  • Norwegian: “New Westminster”
  • Persian: “نیو وست مینستر”
  • Polish: “New Westminster”
  • Portuguese: “New Westminster, Colúmbia Britânica”
  • Portuguese: “New Westminster”
  • Russian: “Нью-Вестминстер”
  • Russian: “Нью-Уэстминстер”
  • Serbian: “Њу Вестминстер”
  • Sinhala: “නිව් වෙස්ට්මිනිස්ටර්”
  • Slovak: “New Westminster”
  • Slovenian: “New Westminster, Britanska Kolumbija”
  • South Azerbaijani: “نیو وست مینستر”
  • Spanish: “New Westminster (Columbia Británica)”
  • Spanish: “New Westminster”
  • Swahili: “New Westminster, British Kolumbia”
  • Swahili: “New Westminster”
  • Swedish: “New Westminister”
  • Swedish: “New Westminster”
  • Tamil: “நியூ வெஸ்மின்ஸ்டர்”
  • Telugu: “న్యూ వెస్ట్మిన్స్టర్”
  • Thai: “นิวเวสต์มินสเตอร์”
  • Turkish: “New Westminster”
  • Ukrainian: “Нью-Вестмінстер”
  • Urdu: “نیو ویسٹ منسٹر”
  • Vietnamese: “New Westminster”
  • Volapük: “New Westminster”
  • Western Panjabi: “نیو وسٹمنسٹر”
  • Yue Chinese: “新西敏”

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